C-130 Plane Crashed Shortly After Takeoff

The crash occurred moments after the plane, from Puerto Rico Air
National Guard's 156th Airlift Wing, took off from Savannah/Hilton
Head International Airport. According to Garden City Police, the plane hit the
ground at Highway 21 and Gulfstream Road at around 11:30 a.m. on a routine
mission to Arizona. Only the tail section of the plane remained intact
following the crash.

At
a news conference, Master Sgt. Roger Parsons of the Georgia Air National
Guard said members of the National Guard were affected by the crash.

"We're brothers and
sisters, we supported one other in these missions, and so no matter who it is,
it hurts us whenever something like this happens."

"I saw it take off
from the airport and I noticed that one of the propellers wasn't turning," a witness
told a 911 operator. "And he banked like he was going toward (Interstate)
95, and then all of a sudden he lost altitude and just took a nose dive into
the ground."

One witness described the Hercules C-130 as doing a barrel roll before
it crashed, while another attempted to give dispatchers the crash site's exact
location. When asked if the plane was on fire, the witness said, "The
plane like incinerated whenever it hit the concrete."

Concerns Raised About the Age of the Plane

The C-130 Hercules was reportedly on its way to Arizona for
decommissioning. At least one of the people on the plane and some family
members expressed concerns about the age of the planes the Puerto Rican Air
National Guard was using. The plane involved in the crash was manufactured in
the 1970s and was about 40 years old. It received "routine
maintenance" in Savannah.

Military investigators are now looking
into what caused the crash. Col. Pete Boone, vice commander of the 165th
Airlift Wing of the Georgia Air National Guard, said they would use every
resource at their disposal to determine what caused the plane to plummet to the
ground.

Less than a year before the Georgia
military plane crash, however, another
KC-130 crash in Mississippi killed 15 Marines and one Navy Corpsmen. That
plane was on its way from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North
Carolina, to the Naval Air Facility, El Centro, California. There were no
survivors in that crash, which was the deadliest in the Marine Corps in more
than 10 years.

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